The Poisoned Scone
(2026)(The third book in the Braunton Book Club Mystery series)
A novel by Morgan Isaac
Ninety people watched her die. Every one of them got it wrong.
When feared food critic Prudence Vale comes home to judge the village baking competition, half of Braunton turns out to be insulted by an expert. She has built a career on ruining reputations. She left this village at nineteen, and she has come back with two things to settle.
By midday she is dead on the floor of the village hall, and the last thing she ever does is complain about a scone.
The police have ninety witnesses and no cause of death. The village has something better. Within a day it has decided it was the girl who baked the winning batch, twenty-two years old, with a job in a proper kitchen starting in October and everything to lose.
Café owner Nina Bell only meant to survive the sponge class. But the Tuesday night book club has done this twice now, and Judith has ruled a fresh page in the notebook, and nobody else in Braunton is going to speak up for a girl who cannot prove a thing.
The answer was never in the scone.
It is in something so ordinary that ninety people watched it happen and decided the dead woman was simply being rude. And to find it, the book club will have to take a village apart with its own kindness, and one of them will have to remember a pudding from 1991.
A warm, funny, fair-play cosy mystery set on the North Devon coast, where the murders are clever, the tea is strong, and nobody is quite as harmless as they look.
Perfect for readers who love Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton, Faith Martin and Death in Paradise.
Book 3 of The Braunton Book Club Mysteries. Every book is a complete story, and this one can be read on its own.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When feared food critic Prudence Vale comes home to judge the village baking competition, half of Braunton turns out to be insulted by an expert. She has built a career on ruining reputations. She left this village at nineteen, and she has come back with two things to settle.
By midday she is dead on the floor of the village hall, and the last thing she ever does is complain about a scone.
The police have ninety witnesses and no cause of death. The village has something better. Within a day it has decided it was the girl who baked the winning batch, twenty-two years old, with a job in a proper kitchen starting in October and everything to lose.
Café owner Nina Bell only meant to survive the sponge class. But the Tuesday night book club has done this twice now, and Judith has ruled a fresh page in the notebook, and nobody else in Braunton is going to speak up for a girl who cannot prove a thing.
The answer was never in the scone.
It is in something so ordinary that ninety people watched it happen and decided the dead woman was simply being rude. And to find it, the book club will have to take a village apart with its own kindness, and one of them will have to remember a pudding from 1991.
A warm, funny, fair-play cosy mystery set on the North Devon coast, where the murders are clever, the tea is strong, and nobody is quite as harmless as they look.
Perfect for readers who love Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton, Faith Martin and Death in Paradise.
Book 3 of The Braunton Book Club Mysteries. Every book is a complete story, and this one can be read on its own.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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